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Guest editorial Preface on Special Issue: An Introduction to Research in the Large
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences. (Mobile Life @ SICS)
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences. (Mobile Life Centre)
Motorola Mobility.
2011 (English)In: International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, ISSN 1942-390X, E-ISSN 1942-3918, no Special issueArticle, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Distribution of mobile applications has been greatly simplified by mobile app stores and markets. Both lone developers and large research and development teams can now relatively easily reach wide audiences. In addition, people’s mobile phones can now run advanced applications and are equipped with sensors that used to be available only in custom research hardware. This provides researchers with a huge opportunity to gather research data from a large public. Evaluation and research methods have to be adapted to this new context. However, an overview of successful strategies and ways to overcome the methodological challenges inherent to wide deployment in a research context is not yet available. A workshop was organized on this topic and this special issue to help address these topics. This introduction provides an overview of strategies and opportunities in ‘research in the large’, while providing an introduction to challenges in ethics and validity as well.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Aston University, UK , 2011. no Special issue
Keywords [en]
research in the large, ubiquitous computing, mobile research, research methods
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Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-87217OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-87217DiVA, id: diva2:601580
Available from: 2013-01-30 Created: 2013-01-29 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Mobility is the Message: Experiments with Mobile Media Sharing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mobility is the Message: Experiments with Mobile Media Sharing
2013 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores new mobile media sharing applications by building, deploying, and studying their use. While we share media in many different ways both on the web and on mobile phones, there are few ways of sharing media with people physically near us. Studied were three designed and built systems: Push!Music, Columbus, and Portrait Catalog, as well as a fourth commercially available system – Foursquare. This thesis offers four contributions: First, it explores the design space of co-present media sharing of four test systems. Second, through user studies of these systems it reports on how these come to be used. Third, it explores new ways of conducting trials as the technical mobile landscape has changed. Last, we look at how the technical solutions demonstrate different lines of thinking from how similar solutions might look today.

Through a Human-Computer Interaction methodology of design, build, and study, we look at systems through the eyes of embodied interaction and examine how the systems come to be in use. Using Goffman’s understanding of social order, we see how these mobile media sharing systems allow people to actively present themselves through these media. In turn, using McLuhan’s way of understanding media, we reflect on how these new systems enable a new type of medium distinct from the web centric media, and how this relates directly to mobility.

While media sharing is something that takes place everywhere in western society, it is still tied to the way media is shared through computers. Although often mobile, they do not consider the mobile settings. The systems in this thesis treat mobility as an opportunity for design. It is still left to see how this mobile media sharing will come to present itself in people’s everyday life, and when it does, how we will come to understand it and how it will transform society as a medium distinct from those before. This thesis gives a glimpse at what this future will look like.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, 2013. p. 101
Series
Report Series / Department of Computer & Systems Sciences, ISSN 1101-8526 ; 13-002SICS dissertation series, ISSN 1101-1335 ; 59
Keywords
mobile, media, sharing, design, studies, mobility, trials, foursquare, music sharing, co-present interaction, goffman, ubicomp, hci, mobile hci
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Man-Machine-Interaction (MMI)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-87218 (URN)978-91-7447-643-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2013-03-11, sal C, Electrum, Isafjordsgatan 20-26, Kista, 13:00 (English)
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Supervisors
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Mobile Life Centre
Note

At the  time of doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Submitted.

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